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Sweet Links…Cinco de Mayo, Hugh Grant on his baby girl, Photographs of Kids, SAHDs, interrupt-itis, Gellar expecting #2, Breastfeeding Tips, Birth Story

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Happy Saturday! 

And Cinco de Mayo. Did you celebrate? I know it isn’t really a real holiday but it was still nice to see friends and family. And have a very refreshing margarita while watching the kids do their thing, play with rocks and get messy. Life is sweet.

Also sweet, I just had a random person tell me they thought my art was amazing, this one in particular. That sort of made my night.The Edge of the Forest - LIMITED EDITION Print of an abstract acryclic painting.

Yay for feeling nice. I see this painting every day in my house and it makes me happy. I’m glad someone else likes it too.

Anyway, check out these interesting articles that I found time to read and share with you because they were so good! Want more? Click here to check out my other recent Sweet Links posts.

Enjoy!

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Good Parenting Reads:

  

Those fries are so tasty! Would you be embarrassed if your kid drew this as their favorite food and showed it to everyone who thought you only let your kid eat healthy food?

And Hugh Grant on kids…Well, his kid. This Ellen clip is pretty good.

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Good Breastfeeding Reads:

And your birth story of the day…

When A Birth Teacher Gives Birth – Birth Story - Mama Birth

You know, I really prefer homebirth stories because I don’t like reading about hospital protocol or rude docs or nurses but this one wasn’t bad. I like Mama Birth’s intro to it as well.
“I thought it was really interesting to read a birth story from a birth teacher.  I always feel some performance anxiety during my pregnancies- like if I don’t have a natural birth or if I beg for an epidural or for somebody to make it all better, then I will get kicked out of the crunchy- wunchy club.  
Alas- I HAVE wanted an epidural and nobody kicked me out of that imaginary club.  

So, enjoy this birth story, it has lots of interesting lessons and thoughts from a somewhat different perspective.”

Let’s throw in a couple more articles I read about birth & loss today while I’m at it…

OK! Enough. Goodnight!

Sweet Links…What Stay-at-Home Moms Do, NPR on Obese Kids, 8 Discipline Mistakes, Pregnancy & Spring Fashion, Arizona’s anti-abortion bill, Breastfeeding & Toxin-free Living Event, April 14, 2012

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Happy Thursday!

It is already almost Friday? What?! Where did this week go? We are moving on Saturday and I have not packed a box. I am terrible. I’ve had Elimination Communication on the brain, playdates over, family in town…le sigh. Oh and have you heard about Jenna Elfman, Kelly Preston and Laila Ali holding a Breastfeeding & Toxin-free Living Event April 14, 2012? More details at Best for Babes.

Here are some interesting posts worth reading. Want more? Click here to check out my other recent Sweet Links posts.

Enjoy!

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This one is so, so true. It will make you laugh – read it!

Excerpt -
I saw red when I read a letter to an advice column from a childless woman who suspects her friend is lying about being busy all day.
“Motherhood isn’t a chain of wondrous little moments strung together in one perfectly orchestrated slide show. It’s dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frustrating all at once. It’s everything. Anyone who claims that motherhood is only the good stuff is simply in denial (or she’s on some serious drugs). Admitting that this job isn’t always easy doesn’t make somebody a bad mother. At least, it shouldn’t.”
Really, this is what being a stay at home mom means:

I also just saw this funny-but-true comment in People’s piece, James Van Der Beek’s Free Time Is a ‘Thing of the Past.’ I think I finally think this guy is OK.

“It’s a lot of work,” Van Der Beek, 35, told PEOPLE on Tuesday. “With one [child], you get a lot more down time. With two, down time becomes a thing of the past.”
Yes. Oh man. Yes.
Have you seen Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23? It is sorta funny. Watch the first two episodes on Hulu. It premieres Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. on ABC.
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KellyMom.com via Attachment Parenting International - Do you and your spouse have different parenting styles? How do you handle it? “Our perceptions of kids’ behavior and our reactions to it are based on past experience. Since spouses have different past experiences, we don’t start out in the same place as parents.”

 

  • Do or Don’t: The half-tuck - Cup of Jo <My opinion? Don’t! Sure, it looks good in these ads but it just looks sloppy in person. What do you think?>

Mamas to be Reese Witherspoon, Molly Sims, and Alessandra Ambrósio dress up their bumps in chic frocks in beautiful shades of pink and red.

Alicia Silverstone attracted quite a bit of attention when she posted a video of herself feeding her 11-month-old son Bear Blu mouth-to-mouth.

Despite the fallout since her March video, the actress maintains that there’s nothing wrong with her mealtime method. “People have been feeding their kids that way for thousands for years. It’s a weaning process.”

 

I think she’s not crazy. You?

Ok, enough for today. I’m out!

 


Sweet Links…New Birth Study says labors are longer due to interventions, Maggie Gyllenhaal is having a girl, Phil & Teds Promenade Stroller, Pregnancy fashion, Breastfed Toddler Poster & parenting news

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Happy Sunday!

What a beautiful day! Sunny, blue skies, cool breeze…the sort of day that makes me happy I’m living in the Bay Area and not in Texas. I am sad that it is the last day of the weekend but what can you do? I’m giving coconut oil a whirl today for the first time. I finally found some at Trader Joe’s and the kitchen smells delish!

Did anyone else watch Up All Night’s newest episode, Letting Go, and feel sorta sad when she casually mentioned her c-section in a conversation to her husband and gave him her vicodin from the surgery? I know that finding a way to give him drugs that they just had laying around the house was probably why they put a c-section in the story, rather than a vaginal birth, but still. Why did they have to make her a c-section mama? They missed an amazing opportunity to show how beautiful birth can be, for Regan to share an empowering birth story with a nation that thinks surgical birth is OK!

Did you see the latest news on how labors are longer now than decades past? And they’re implicating c-sections for that?

Sigh. Here are some interesting posts worth reading. Want more? Click here to check out my other recent Sweet Links posts.

Enjoy!

PS – Did you pull an April Fools prank on anyone??

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Babies Take Longer To Come Out Than They Did In Grandma’s Day – NPR

 Fifty years ago, the typical first-time mother in the U.S. took about four hours to give birth. These days, women labor about 6 1/2 hours.

“The typical first-time mother takes 6 1/2 hours to give birth these days. Her counterpart 50 years ago labored for barely four hours.

That’s the striking conclusion of a new federal study that compared nearly 140,000 births from two time periods.

One big implication: Today’s obstetricians may be rushing to do cesarean sections too soon because they’re using an out-of-date yardstick for how long a “normal” labor should take.”

My favorite part is the end, where they suggest that today’s routine practices “may need to be thoughtfully reconsidered.” More at NPR.

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Maggie Gyllenhaal: I’m Having a Girl!
Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic

Maggie Gyllenhaal her husband, actor Peter Sarsgaard, will welcome their second daughter in late spring, she tells USA Today. Yay! Girls are the BEST!

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I was thinking about a double stroller a while back but then after the new baby came and she didn’t want to be in a stroller for the life of her, a double stroller wasn’t a good idea. Maybe now that she likes being in one

Review: Phil & Teds Promenade Stroller

by People Courtesy Phil & Teds
You swore you would never use a double stroller that places one of your tots on the bottom.

1 Trend, 3 Ways: Gray Maternity Maxi Dresses

by Anya

No gray area here: Hollywood’s hottest moms-to-be are looking good! We’ve spotted everyone from Vanessa Lachey (March 22) and Jessica Simpson (Jan. 16) to Jessica Alba (June 2011) keeping their bumps covered with stylish gray maxi dresses.

So Pretty! More of Me Maternity’s Spring Collection

by Shanelle

Courtesy More of Me Maternity

Courtesy Isabella Oliver Maternity Isabella Oliver Maternity
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Have you seen the breastfed baby poster? Well, here is the breastfed toddler poster to match!
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Sweet Links…Hot Moms Special! Jessica Alba, Michelle Obama, Miranda Kerr, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Beyoncé, & Charlize Theron

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I can’t get enough of Daily Mail celebrity gossip today. Seriously. Check out these hot moms in the news today.

 ’I'm the disciplinarian’: Jessica Alba on why she is a strict mother as she poses for portrait with her daughters

The bad guy? Jessica Alba poses with her adorable children Haven, seven months and Honor Marie, six, in the new issue of Parenting

Love that dress. And look at those sweet sisters.

What do you think about leopard pants? They seem to like ‘em on Daily Mail. But I’m not so sure.

Wild thing! Miranda Kerr is chic in bright blue leopard-print jeans

Wild thing: Miranda Kerr returns to he New York apartment after a trip to the spa wearing bright blue leopard-print jeans

And when is Maggie’s due date again? She seems like such a chill mom. I can’t wait to see her new baby.

Any day now? Pregnant Maggie Gyllenhaal cradles her rather large baby bump as she edges nearer to her due date – Daily Mail

Any day now? Pregnant Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is said to be due to give birth soon, was spotted cradling her rather large baby bump in New York today

Also just saw Beyonce on Daily Mail too with her little girl. She does look like a happy new mom. I’m not a fan of the Baby Bjorn though. Get that mama an Ergo carrier, stat! And I saw some little gold baby shoes this weekend that I was really tempted to buy for my pre-walker but I know they are just for me, not for her. So I resisted. Why cramp her little feet with shoes when they don’t do any good? Well, except for a little wind protection.

Her golden girl! Beyoncé clads Blue Ivy in precious metal booties for a stroll in Manhattan

 

Coordinated: Blue's gold shoes matched the mellow palette of Beyoncé's outfit
And guess who just adopted a baby boy?
Charlize Theron is a mother! Single actress adopts baby boy… and celebrates in style
Getting some tips on motherhood?: Charlize chatted away to fellow actress Katie Holmes
And last but not least, Michelle Obama’s. Love her glow, love that dress!

Blue belles of the ball: Samantha Cameron and Michelle Obama fly the flag for home designers as they colour co-ordinate their gowns at the White House state dinner

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama (R) and Samantha Cameron (L), wife of British Prime Minister David Cameron

Sweet links…What does the ideal woman look like? New AAP breastfeeding policy, Sleep Regressions & Physical Milestones, Parisian wedges, Family kicked off plane, Heidi Klum, Bad Romance: Women’s Suffrage Video

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Happy Thursday!

I ready for the weekend again. I guess it has been a fairly easy week but there is nothing like being able to have a little me-time with the husband home to watch the girls for an hour. We are still waiting to hear back about the new apartment we applied for in Berkeley. My next family visit is about a month away. Will we have to move before then or after then? Also, I’ve noticed that the less time I spend blogging, the cleaner the house looks and the more I feed myself. Who knew??! I know, I know. But I was pretty addicted for a while there but I’m scaling it back a bit. Here are some interesting posts that are worth reading. Want more? Click here to check out my other recent Sweet Links posts.

Enjoy!

And scroll down to the bottom for the Gaga Suffrage video -

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What do you think of this “ideal woman” that Daily Mail posted? Natalie Portman’s nose and Scarlett Johansson’s lips: The face of the ‘ideal woman’ according to plastic surgeons’ most popular requests

Perfection? Marie Claire Australia has summed up the ideal woman according to the most-requested looks received by plastic surgeons

She’s freaking me out. Make.it.stop.

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Are you interested in hearing what the formula feeders think of the new AAP statement? Check out Fearless Formula Feeder’s response. It is worth a read.

WTF, AAP? The problem with the American Academy of Pediatrics’ newest statement on breastfeeding – by The Fearless Formula Feeder

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Who doesn’t like to read about how shitty some other mother has it when your own kids won’t let you sleep longer than 2 hours at a time??

Sleep Regressions & Physical Milestones

by Amalah < Advice Smackdown
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Feel like crying? Watch the video in this article -

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And I think I want these. Yes.

Parisian wedges - Cup of Jo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What do you think of this?

‘We weren’t drunk or angry… we were having a hard time with our children’: Family kicked off JetBlue flight after toddler has a TANTRUM

Going nowhere: The pilot of the JetBlue flight to Boston would not take off with the family on board last month

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And one more juicy Daily Mail piece -

The other side of the story: Heidi Klum finally breaks her silence on shocking split from Seal

Elle breaks loose: Heidi Klum finally speaks out about her split from Seal in Elle magazine

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Oh. And I almost forgot. Today is Happy International Women’s Day! The 101st, actually.

Yet women do 2/3 of the world’s work, earn 10% of the income, and own 1% of the land.

Have you seen this Gaga parody on suffrage? It made me cry, I’m not going to lie, and I never thought I’d cry to a Lady Gaga song. I can’t believe women in the United States have been voting for less than a hundred years. And it took nearly 70 years of fighting to get it. Fighting for our rights, all of them, is a tough business. When will we actually be treated equally? When will be free of gender discrimination and stereotypes, have equal pay, equal educational opportunities, equal access to healthcare, and be able to nurse our babies without harassment?

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FOR LYRICS GO TO http://www.soomopublishing.com/suffrageBad Romance: Women’s Suffrage is a parody music video paying homage to Alice Paul and the generations of brave women who joined together in the fight to pass the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote in 1920.

In 2010, Soomo Publishing launched a parody music video called Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZfRaWAtBVg]. The result was a viral hit and remains a popular teaching resource for history teachers and political science professors across the United States. The response was so overwhelming that Soomo decided to follow it up with Bad Romance: Women’s Suffrage.

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Enough for day. Goodnight!

Sweet Links…Beyonce Breastfeeds Blue Ivy in Public, Uma’s Baby Belly, Republicans joke, Relationship, mom, vaccination, & car seat tips, our birthin’ bodies

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Happy Thursday!

I can’t wait until the weekend. What a long week it has been. Here are my sweet links for today.

Enjoy!

Beyonce Breastfeeds Blue Ivy in Public

Beyonce Breastfeeds Blue Ivy in Public – Us Magazine

Way to go Beyonce! Be a proud breastfeeding mama!!

 

 

 

 

BumpWatch: Uma Thurman Debuts Her Belly - People

Photo: Susan Waters/Startraks

Go Uma!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have you seen this yet?

I saw this floating around Facebook yesterday. Who knows where it really came from. But if you’ve seen anything about contraception and forced transvaginal ultrasounds, this actually isn’t that funny.

Who doesn’t find this type of article interesting?

Relationship tip: Keeping the sparks flying - Cup of Jo

Love this photo too!

 

 

 

 

 

67.2% Vaginal Birth Rate- Proof That Female Bodies Still Work

by Mama Birth

Interesting way to look at the sad c-section rate. And who knew only 3% of women (in this birth survey – Listening to Mothers Survey) birthed in the upright position?

Wow. I wonder what the homebirth position rates are.

 

Treading Raging Waters: 11 DEADLY mistakes you didn’t know you were making!

Hint…Car seat safety

Another parenting hot button: Immunizations. Where do you stand? All for 100% of them? Delayed? Against? I just came across this little post and thought I’d share.

“…over a decade ago, in a statement to the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee, as executive director of AAPS, Jane Orient, M.D. wrote:
For most children, the risk of a serious vaccine reaction may be 100 times greater than the risk of hepatitis B. Overall, the incidence of hepatitis B in the U.S. is currently about 4 per 100,000. The risk for most young children is far less; hepatitis B is heavily concentrated in groups at high risk due to occupation, sexual promiscuity, or drug abuse. VAERS contains 25,000 reports related to hepatitis B vaccine, about one-third of which were serious enough to lead to an emergency room visit, hospitalization, or death. It is often assumed that only 10% of reactions are reported. (This committee has heard testimony about persons being actively discouraged from reporting, even if they are aware of the reporting system.) Thus, if there have been some 80,000 serious adverse reactions associated with 20 million doses of vaccine, the risk is about 4 in 1000….” Read the whole story.

Back to other parenting decisions and tips.

Their short list?

1. There’s no such thing as a perfect birth.
2. Brace yourself for hormonal moments.
3. It’s OK to ask for help.
4. You might not “bond” at first.
5. Loosen up and PLAY!
6. Read to your baby.
7. Don’t blink

What do you think? What would you add?

 

Bad Moms Lose Their Tempers Sometimes – Bad Moms Club

 

Yea. Guilty.

 

 

My recent posts:

Sweet Links…Hellraisers, SIDS, Recalls, Update on Virginia Abortion Law, Facebook censored Guardian’s Breastfeeding photos, Nursing tips, Overdiagnosis, Milk to Food Transition, Garner-Affleck son born!

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Happy Wednesday!

Oh, and happy Leap Year! What is Leap Year all about anyway? Check this out:

Leap Year 2012: The Science And History Behind Feb. 29 (VIDEO) – Huffington Post

So informative! And funny! LOL mathematicians!

Anyway, in an attempt to get to bed on time tonight, I’m posting my links earlier. Yes, maybe I’m skipping my naptime to do this so perhaps it isn’t that helpful for me anyway, but here are my sweet links for today anyway…so many good headlines!

Baby Center News:

And an update on arsenic in formula -

FFF says there is only one company used brown rice syrup in their formulas, and that was Nature’s One, makers of Baby’s Only Organic Dairy Toddler Formula and Baby’s Only Organic Soy Toddler Formula. So if you’re using those, you should use something else for a while.

More on infant feeding…

What does your older child do while you’re nursing? Do you let them run around, strap ‘em down in a highchair for some food, throw ‘em on your other side? Well, if you let them run around like I do, I bet they get into trouble every once in a while (like every other day)…these photos from C.Jane Run are hilarious!

While I was nursing – Day 1 & 2

Facebook Breastfeeding Censorship News:

The Guardian posted photos of breastfeeding mothers this morning as an experiment to see if Facebook would censor them. Guess what? They did, with a “with a stern warning about community standards.” Community standards? Are you kidding me? Facebook claims they accept breastfeeding photos but yet they censored THE GUARDIAN. More on this story here:

Facebook eye Sorry, Facebook – on breastfeeding you seem rather confused – The Guardian

Facebook’s response to a Guardian challenge over their photo policy won’t do.

How nice that Facebook is getting another nurse-in today in NYC? What nice timing :)

More breastfeeding info…

Are you breastfeeding but worried that going back to work or school might make breastfeeding too hard to keep up in the long run? With a little planning, you can do it! Here are some simple ideas that have helped other moms.

Looking to start your little one on solids?

Read: The 12-Month Milk-to-Food Transition – by Amalah < Advice Smackdown

Her advice? Read How To Get Your Kid To Eat…But Not Too Much, by Ellyn Satter. She suggests you buy it on Amazon but since I’m mad at Amazon right now (for raising prices, taking away discounts & charging fees for Amazon Moms), find it someplace else! I’ve linked you to Barnes & Noble :)

Is looking hard for things to be wrong a good way to promote health? NO.

Read: Overdiagnosis as a Flaw in Health Care – NY Times

 

And celebrity news of the day…

Guess who had her baby?? Jennifer Garner!

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck Welcome Son Samuel - People.com

Yay!!! Finally! I loved watching pregnant Jennifer in the news and am so happy their little boy made his arrival and joined his big sisters! Do you think my next baby will be a boy, just like the Garner-Afflecks??

(NO I AM NOT PREGNANT RIGHT NOW. Yes, I had to say that in all caps. I just mean that I have two girls and the third-baby-to-be-but-not-right-now could be a boy, right?)

 

Enjoy!

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